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#1 (permalink)   02-23-2009 VAF Newsbot Junior Member Company name: Virtual Assistant Forums   Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 350 Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective Newsday, NY There are presently more than 130 million blogs on the Internet, according to San Francisco-based blog tracker Technorati. While it's not clear how many of those are corporate, it's safe to say that your own message can risk getting lost in the mix ... Click here to read the full article.

#2 (permalink)   02-23-2009 Tess Senior Member Company name: Codehead, LLP Latest blog post: SEO Q&A   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 9,131 Blog Entries: 3 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday I read this article and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about how to leverage a blog for business sucess - great links and resources provided. Worth a read! __________________ Create a welcome packet for new clients with this guide and free templates! (Available in PDF and Kindle versions)

#3 (permalink)   03-05-2009 RebeccaT Active Member Company name: CLR Virtual Connection Latest blog post: Looking for Authenticity in Social Media My latest Twitter: http://t.co/51xUrPfJ check out my cake #hootsuite ...   Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 549 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday I am learning all about blogging (bought the Wordpress for Dummies)...and am nervous that mine won't be good or that my mind won't function to create blogs.... __________________ Rebecca Thompson CLR Virtual Connection * fanTABulous fan pages

#4 (permalink)   03-05-2009 VA17_CS Contributing Member Company name: PASS   Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 101 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday Great post. This is something that I was actually looking into. __________________ Sheena M Cooper, VAA Sheena's Virtual Solutions

#5 (permalink)   03-05-2009 Lia-VSS Active Member Company name: Julia Neal Latest blog post: Irish phone problem now fixed! My latest Twitter: @KelliNicole12 I believe it's called cabin fe...   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin [IE] [Former UK] Posts: 670 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday wow!! thanks for the link!! I am thinking of doing a video/audio blog - would that be successful? also, I'm thinking of starting a podcast for my other passion - french music - do you think it'd be a good idea to link my personal passion with my business...?! any tips/advice would be appreciated! __________________ Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin! http://julianeal.wordpress.com

#6 (permalink)   03-05-2009 leedrozak Resident Member Company name: My Office Assistant Small Business Practical Times: Web Security: Password Protection My latest Twitter: This is a great weekend to support #SBW2012. I wi...   Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Western Pennsylvania Posts: 2,263 Blog Entries: 13 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday Thanks for sharing, I have set a goal of making my blog more effective and have implemented several ideas including lighting up the tone a bit to add more of my personality, incorporating guest blogs and committing to posting at least once a week and it seems to be paying off so far. Any additional resources on how to make that work are more than welcome so thank you again VAF Newsbot. __________________ Lee Drozak My Office Assistant

#7 (permalink)   03-05-2009 Administrative Partners Active Member Company name: Administrative Partners, LLC Latest blog post: 5 Steps to Create a Successful Marketing Plan My latest Twitter: working on my social media strategy   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Virtually Anywhere Posts: 667 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday This included some great tips.. thanks for sharing. __________________ Tamika R. Johnson, MBA, Principal administrative partners, llc www.administrativepartners.net | http://adminpartners.blogspot.com

#8 (permalink)   03-05-2009 kkaiser Contributing Member Company name: Backstage Virtual Assistant BVA Bulletin: Does Your Business Collect Sales Tax?   Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 151 Blog Entries: 1 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday Great article- thanks for sharing. As a newbie, I really appreciate the links. __________________ Kim Kaiser, RP, Certified QB ProAdvisor http://www.backstagevirtualassistant.com

#9 (permalink)   03-06-2009 Leilani Contributing Member Company name: Aspire Virtual Assistants   Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Corvallis, Oregon. Posts: 124 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday I was looking for something about blogging.....it's all new to me! I read the article and it gave me something to think about. Leilani

#10 (permalink)   03-19-2009 Vicky Active Member   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 593 Re: Small Business: Starting a blog and making it effective - Newsday Thanks for sharing. After reading the article, I am a little confused, I always thought that a business blog should be just that a Business blog but this article states that it should be a mix of you and your business. What do you all think, what works better for you? __________________ Vicky www.c-vas.eu